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Variations on Old Folks at Home

Introduction

Dudley Buck (1839–1909) was born at Hartford, Connecticut and studied both at the Leipzig Conservatoire and in Paris. On returning to America he held a number of posts as organist and composed in a variety of genres. His Variations on ‘Old Folks at Home’ begins with a brief introduction and then a statement of the theme marked Andante patetico. The animated first variation runs straight into the second, a very quiet Poco adagio. The third begins as a majestic pedal solo calling for a pedal technique sufficient to play two-part harmony. In the final variation, the theme is heard in the tenor register below a lively descant, but the quiet coda dismisses these remembrances of youth, its chromaticism recalling the resigned mood of the theme’s initial statement.

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